Hello. Thank you playing and rating our game.
We intended to make this game quite hard and challenging. By the way. You have more than two upgrades to choose from in the early game. You have 2 starter items in the "melee" section. 2 in "ranged" section, and 2 in "healing" section. (So i guess you are missing something, you can choose these sections with bottom buttons in the game).
Once again, Thank you for playing and rating our game.
Have a great day!